Fireworks as the World of Outlaws Late Model Series unloads at Volusia Speedway Park
The DIRTcar Nationals is in full swing at Volusia Speedway Park. Wednesday night hosted the first night of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series.
Mark Whitener was on his way to a race win. It would have been his first career WoOLMS win. However, Brandon Overton was on a charge to take it away.
Whitener and Overton started to bang doors. This allowed the field to close.
9 laps to go, Overton looked to the outside of Whitener heading into the corner. Whitener shut the door. Overton drove it to the bottom and slid him for the spot anyway.
They rubbed doors off the corner. Whitener held the spot.
In the next corner, Overton attempted another slider. This time, Whitener hung onto his right rear. As they ran off the corner, they were even.
But, they were also out of room. The two drivers rubbed doors off the corner. This time, Overton took the lead.
Coming to 7 to go, Whitener drove it deep into turn three. He slid Overton for the spot but he didn’t try to clear him. Whitener drove into the door of Whitener and pushed him over the cushion.
Whitener and Overton were out along with the caution flag. Dennis Erb Jr was handed the lead.
With 5 to go, Dennis Erb Jr opened the gap on Brandon Sheppard. However, Sheppard beat on the cushion and was closing.
With 1 to go, Sheppard was within a car length. Erb ran the bottom. Sheppard had the momentum off the final corner.
Sheppard attempted to cross under him off turn four. They ran a drag race to the start finish line but Dennis Erb Jr was first to the line.
Dennis Erb Jr penalized
“Erb did not bring his car to postrace inspection as required, forcing officials to penalize him to last place and award Sheppard the victory,” The World of Outlaws Late Model Series report read.
“I don’t know, nobody came and told me. And I’m the driver,” Dennis Erb Jr told DirtonDirt.com after the race.
“I’m the one standing out on the front straight-away, with nobody around me. Waiting to see what to do. And like I said, I just drove over here [to my hauler].”
“I mean, they’ve checked people at the trailers before. They change things, throughout the night, on what they’re going to do.”
“They need to come up with a consistent way of doing things. Just the way it is on some of their rules and stuff. Don’t do it one way, one night. Then, change and do it another, the next night.”
Erb gave a simple example regarding hot laps. Groups staged in the infield for qualifying and hot laps.
“Why are we doing that? Don’t change it up every night.
It’s the second win during the DIRTcar Nationals for Brandon Sheppard.
“Not the way we wanted to win it, Dennis did a really good job there,” Sheppard said. “He kept it out in front of us that whole race. We were right there, definitely slicing-and-dicing there and had a really good race.”
Dennis Erb Jr declined comment after the ruling from series officials.
Mark Whitener vs Brandon Overton
Mark Whitener: “He just wrecked me. He slid all the way into me, put me in the fence and flattened my left-rear tire. He just completely fenced me. I just got wrecked,” Whitener said.
“And the bad part about it is, me and Brandon have raced Crates, we’ve raced spec for $3,000, $5,000, $10,000, whatever the case is. But this is a World of Outlaws $10,000-to-win race.”
“You don’t wreck somebody leading the race. A crate race, a local race, whatever. However he wants to race is good with me, I’ll rub doors all day long.”
“But you don’t take someone’s first World of Outlaws win away from them by putting them in the fence. You don’t do that,” Whitener concluded.
Brandon Overton: “We got together, and I guess he felt like I ran him over, so he came back and ran me over. It is what it is, I just hate it for all these guys that work on this thing, but we’ll get it fixed up and go again,” Overton said.
“It is what it is. We were both trying to win, he was driving hard, I was driving hard and we just came together,” Overton concluded.
Volusia Speedway Park
Race Results
February 12, 2020
World of Outlaws Late Models
View full 2020 Volusia Speedway Park results for the World of Outlaws Late Model Series.
Qualifying
Qualifying – Group A (2 Laps): 1. 157-Mike Marlar, 16.422; 2. 20-Jimmy Owens, 16.424; 3. 0-Scott Bloomquist, 16.469; 4. 29v-Darrell Lanigan, 16.545; 5. 15-Donny Schatz, 16.547; 6. 7-Ricky Weiss, 16.575; 7. 14-Josh Richards, 16.606; 8. 25-Shane Clanton, 16.618; 9. 1st-Johnny Scott, 16.635; 10. 97-Cade Dillard, 16.662; 11. 12-Ashton Winger, 16.675; 12. 5-Mark Whitener, 16.741; 13. 6jr-Parker Martin, 16.743; 14. 36-Logan Martin, 16.889; 15. 89-G.R. Smith, 16.953; 16. 25DC-Donnie Chappell, 16.988; 17. OOO-Kyle Lear, 17.011; 18. 40B-Kyle Bronson, 17.03; 19. 0e-Rick Eckert, 17.039; 20. 1P-Earl Pearson, 17.071; 21. 66c-Matt Cosner, 17.127; 22. 25z-Mason Zeigler, 17.144; 23. 33-Jeff Mathews, 17.149; 24. B1-Brent Larson, 17.295; 25. 16-Justin Rattliff, 17.462; 26. 311-Ken Monahan, 17.693
Qualifying – Group B (2 Laps): 1. 28-Dennis Erb, 16.455; 2. 3s-Brian Shirley, 16.49; 3. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 16.551; 4. 1-Brandon Sheppard, 16.555; 5. 76-Brandon Overton, 16.64; 6. 39-Tim McCreadie, 16.662; 7. 18-Chase Junghans, 16.669; 8. 17M-Dale McDowell, 16.698; 9. 72-Michael Norris, 16.734; 10. 0M-Chris Madden, 16.757; 11. 25w-Allen Weisser, 16.817; 12. 21-Ivedent Lloyd, 16.962; 13. 76n-Blair Northdurft, 16.979; 14. 2s-Stormy Scott, 17.029; 15. 99B-Boom Briggs, 17.045; 16. 4G-Kody Evans, 17.09; 17. 31-Tyler Millwood, 17.129; 18. 2w-Pearson Williams, 17.135; 19. 8-Kyle Strickler, 17.409; 20. 23-John Blankenship, 17.498; 21. 15H-Steve Hucovski, 17.552; 22. 2-Dan Stone, 17.601; 23. 22-Gregg Satterlee, 17.667; 24. 6-Blake Spencer, 27.8; DNS. 16H-Mike Hammerle, NT
Heat Races
Heat 1 (8 Laps – 3 Advance): 1. 157-Mike Marlar [1]; 2. 29v-Darrell Lanigan [2]; 3. 14-Josh Richards [3]; 4. 97-Cade Dillard [4]; 5. 25z-Mason Zeigler [8]; 6. 0e-Rick Eckert [7]; 7. 6jr-Parker Martin [5]; 8. 16-Justin Rattliff [9]; 9. 25DC-Donnie Chappell [6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps – 3 Advance) : 1. 20-Jimmy Owens [1]; 2. 25-Shane Clanton [3]; 3. 12-Ashton Winger [4]; 4. 36-Logan Martin [5]; 5. 1P-Earl Pearson [7]; 6. OOO-Kyle Lear [6]; 7. 33-Jeff Mathews [8]; 8. 311-Ken Monahan [9]; 9. 15-Donny Schatz [2]
Heat 3 (8 Laps – Top 3 Advance) : 1. 5-Mark Whitener [4]; 2. 7-Ricky Weiss [2]; 3. 40B-Kyle Bronson [6]; 4. 0-Scott Bloomquist [1]; 5. 89-G.R. Smith [5]; 6. 1st-Johnny Scott [3]; 7. 66c-Matt Cosner [7]; 8. B1-Brent Larson [8]
Heat 4 (8 Laps – Top 3 Advance): 1. 28-Dennis Erb [1]; 2. 1-Brandon Sheppard [2]; 3. 18-Chase Junghans [3]; 4. 0M-Chris Madden [4]; 5. 4G-Kody Evans [6]; 6. 2-Dan Stone [8]; 7. 8-Kyle Strickler [7]; 8. 76n-Blair Northdurft [5]; 9. 16H-Mike Hammerle [9]
Heat 5 (8 Laps – Top 3 Advance): 1. 76-Brandon Overton [2]; 2. 3s-Brian Shirley [1]; 3. 17M-Dale McDowell [3]; 4. 2s-Stormy Scott [5]; 5. 31-Tyler Millwood [6]; 6. 25w-Allen Weisser [4]; 7. 22-Gregg Satterlee [8]; 8. 23-John Blankenship [7]
Heat 6 (8 Laps – Top 3 Advance): 1. 39-Tim McCreadie [2]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport [1]; 3. 72-Michael Norris [3]; 4. 99B-Boom Briggs [5]; 5. 21-Ivedent Lloyd [4]; 6. 2w-Pearson Williams [6]; 7. 6-Blake Spencer [8]; 8. 15H-Steve Hucovski [7]
B-Mains
B-Main 1 (10 Laps – Top 2 Advance): 1. 97-Cade Dillard [1][-]; 2. 25z-Mason Zeigler [3][-]; 3. 36-Logan Martin [2][$110]; 4. 0e-Rick Eckert [5][$110]; 5. 16-Justin Rattliff [9][$110]; 6. 6jr-Parker Martin [7][]; 7. OOO-Kyle Lear [6][$110]; 8. 33-Jeff Mathews [8][$110]; 9. 311-Ken Monahan [10][$110]; 10. 1P-Earl Pearson [4][]; 11. 25DC-Donnie Chappell [11][$110]; 12. 15-Donny Schatz [12][]
B-Main 2 (10 Laps – Top 2 Advance): 1. 0M-Chris Madden [2][-]; 2. 4G-Kody Evans [4][-]; 3. 0-Scott Bloomquist [1][$110]; 4. 1st-Johnny Scott [5][$110]; 5. 8-Kyle Strickler [8][$110]; 6. 89-G.R. Smith [3][]; 7. 66c-Matt Cosner [7][$110]; 8. 76n-Blair Northdurft [10][$110]; 9. 2-Dan Stone [6][$110]; 10. B1-Brent Larson [9][]; 11. 16H-Mike Hammerle [11][$110]
B-Main 3 (10 Laps – Top 2 Advance): 1. 99B-Boom Briggs [2][-]; 2. 2s-Stormy Scott [1][-]; 3. 31-Tyler Millwood [3][$110]; 4. 22-Gregg Satterlee [7][$110]; 5. 23-John Blankenship [9][$110]; 6. 6-Blake Spencer [8][]; 7. 2w-Pearson Williams [6][$110]; 8. 15H-Steve Hucovski [10][$110]; 9. 25w-Allen Weisser [5][$110]; 10. 21-Ivedent Lloyd [4][]
Volusia Speedway Park
Feature Race Results
February 12, 2020
A-Main (40 Laps – $10,000 to win):
Pos | Driver | Start | Earnings
1. 1-Brandon Sheppard [8][$10,000]; 2. 29v-Darrell Lanigan [7][$5,000]; 3. 14-Josh Richards [13][$3,000]; 4. 20-Jimmy Owens [6][$2,500]; 5. 3s-Brian Shirley [10][$2,000]; 6. 25-Shane Clanton [9][$1,700]; 7. 39-Tim McCreadie [5][$1,400]; 8. 49-Jonathan Davenport [12][$1,300]; 9. 40B-Kyle Bronson [17][$1,200]; 10. 18-Chase Junghans [14][$1,100]; 11. 17M-Dale McDowell [16][$1,050]; 12. 157-Mike Marlar [3][$1,000]; 13. 25z-Mason Zeigler [22][$950]; 14. 12-Ashton Winger [15][$900]; 15. 0e-Rick Eckert [26][$850]; 16. 4G-Kody Evans [23][$800]; 17. 97-Cade Dillard [19][$770]; 18. 0M-Chris Madden [20][$750]; 19. 0-Scott Bloomquist [25][$730]; 20. 7-Ricky Weiss [11][$700]; 21. 99B-Boom Briggs [21][$700]; 22. 66c-Matt Cosner [27][$700]; 23. 6-Blake Spencer [29][$110]; 24. 5-Mark Whitener [4][$110]; 25. B1-Brent Larson [28][$700]; 26. 76-Brandon Overton [2][$110]; 27. 2s-Stormy Scott [24][$700]; 28. 21-Ivedent Lloyd [30][$700]; 29. 72-Michael Norris [18][$110]; 30. 28-Dennis Erb [1][$700]; Lap Leaders: Brandon Overton – 28; Mark Whitner – 3-27, 29-32; Dennis Erb – 1-2, 33-40; KSE Hard Charger Award: 0e-Rick Eckert[+10]
Links
Volusia Speedway Park | World of Outlaws Late Model Series | Dennis Erb Jr | Brandon Sheppard | Brandon Overton | Mark Whitener
